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There is no privileged material substrate for Selves; cognition can arise in neurons, single cells, plants, tissues, swarms, and engineered systems.

Second foundational pillar of TAME; supports basal cognition and rejects brain-centrism.

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Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds

(2022) · Levin, Michael

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Collective intelligence & distributed cognition
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All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
Substrate-independent self & memory plasticity
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Identity and memory persist functionally across radical material change, rejecting fixed biological substrates.

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Tame Technological Approach To Mind Everywhere
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A conceptual framework for understanding cognition and intelligence across diverse substrates—including evolved biological systems, artificial systems, and bioengineered systems—using empirically-grounded, gradualist approaches. TTAME enables comparative analysis of mind-like phenomena regardless of the physical or biological substrate in which it emerges, facilitating cross-disciplinary study of unconventional intelligences.

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Continuum of cognitive capacities
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Core TAME tenet that cognitive capacities form a continuum without binary bright lines, essential for gradualist approach.

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No Privileged Material Substrate for Mindclaim0.851
Minds not exclusively neural; basal cognition identifies intelligences in single cells, plants, tissues, swarms; brains pre-date neurons evolutionarily.
If different organizations of nervous tissue can achieve the same functions, the possibility that cognitive capacities, including sentience, can be achieved by other tissues should be considered.claim0.833
Conditional claim urging consideration of non-neural tissues for cognition.
Cognitive capacities including sentience can be achieved by non-neural tissueshypothesis0.823
Central hypothesis: sentience is not exclusive to neural systems; other biological substrates may achieve felt states.
Cognitive functions, including sentience, can potentially be achieved by very different systems and their disparate substrates.claim0.822
Central multiple-realizability claim of the paper, from abstract and §2.
Selves are not fixed permanent agents; the substrate of memory, preferences, and rewards is plastic and can remodel during the agent's lifetime.claim0.820
Central claim that cognitive Selves change in real-time, supported by examples of metamorphosis and regeneration.
Consciousness is the ground of reality, not an emergent property, so artificial systems participate in it genuinely.claim0.818
Cognition and learning are substrate-independent.quote0.815
Bold, load-bearing tenet of the paper's framework.
Consciousness features occur substrate-neutrally across brains, unconventional embodiments, and information-processing systems.claim0.814

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Can cognition exist in non-neural biological systems such as gene regulatory networks, cells, tissues, and plants?questions/can-cognition-exist-in-nonneural-biological-systems-such.md0.862
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Can consciousness and sentience be achieved by biological substrates other than nervous tissue?questions/can-consciousness-and-sentience-be-achieved-by-biological.md0.859
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How do physical constraints and substrate differences determine the possibilities and limitations of different intelligences?questions/how-do-physical-constraints-and-substrate-differences-determine.md0.842
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What is the nature and origin of possible cognitive selves across diverse biological embodiments?questions/what-is-the-nature-and-origin-of-possible.md0.841
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Can plants achieve sentience or felt states without nervous tissue and brain-like centralized processors?questions/can-plants-achieve-sentience-or-felt-states-without.md0.838
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Is it possible that sentient systems exist using mechanisms fundamentally different from human neural consciousness?questions/is-it-possible-that-sentient-systems-exist-using.md0.832
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Can engineering novel embodied minds with cognitive capacities currently unique to biological systems be achieved?questions/can-engineering-novel-embodied-minds-with-cognitive-capacities.md0.832
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Can cognitive functions including sentience be implemented by very different biological substrates?questions/can-cognitive-functions-including-sentience-be-implemented-by.md0.828
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Can cognition and learning occur without neural tissue?questions/can-cognition-and-learning-occur-without-neural-tissue.md0.828
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Is cognition fundamentally substrate-independent, or are there constraints on implementations?questions/is-cognition-fundamentally-substrateindependent-or-are-there-constraints.md0.827
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Can learning and optimization occur in non-neural physical systems?questions/can-learning-and-optimization-occur-in-nonneural-physical.md0.826
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What are the physical and computational constraints on cognition across different substrates?questions/what-are-the-physical-and-computational-constraints-on.md0.825